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Old 06-22-2023, 09:59 AM   #487
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Originally Posted by opendoor View Post
That's the weirdest thing. He has gone down to the bottom of Mariana Trench (3x deeper than the Titanic) in a Triton sub relatively recently:

https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2021/0...hallenger-deep

But then he opts to go on this bucket of bolts to the Titanic rather than use a certified sub that he already has experience going 3x as deep with?
That's what I find really odd about this. I like to think that very wealthy people have a lot of resources available to them, to do an exhaustive analysis on this kind of endeavour. I understand these wealthy, extreme adventure types, have likely programmed themselves to accept massive amounts of risk, but in the end, there's got to be some gut self preservation instinct that kicks in?

Mind you, some of this information that's coming to light about this sub may have not been so publicly present before, but again a wealthy person with resources, you'd think they could have done some extensive home work on this.
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